"We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love."
- Dr. Seuss -
Was Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel) a real doctor of some kind? The answer is no. Apparently, the �Dr.� in �Dr. Seuss� was in homage to the author�s father�s hope that his son would receive his PhD, which he failed to do. Theodor Seuss Geisel attended Lincoln College, Oxford with the intention of earning a Doctor of Philosophy in English Literature, but dropped out of school to become a cartoonist.
A couple of other interesting tidbits:
1) The �Seuss� was his mother�s maiden name as well as his own middle name.
2) Most of us mispronounce the author�s pen name. Alexander Liang, one of Geisel�s fellow writers on the Jack-O-Lantern (a student humour magazine at Dartmouth College that Geisel joined as a student) wrote this short poem about the authentic pronunciation:
�You're wrong as the deuce
And you shouldn't rejoice
If you're calling him Seuss.
He pronounces it Soice!�
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